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Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 20, 2011: Source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/relocate-dumping-yard-from-kodungaiyur-mla/289294.html CHENNAI: Echoing the local residents’ demand at the well of the Chennai Corporation’s Council Meet, CPIM party’s Perambur MLA A Soundararajan on Wednesday appealed to the Mayor M Subramanian to move the garbage dumping yard out of Kodungaiyur to save people living near the area. While participating in the Council’s proceedings at Ripon Building, Soundararajan said, “ Since the very presence of dumping yard at Kodungaiyur has created severe health-related problems for the local people over the years, as an elected representative of those people living near the dumping area, I demand that the yard should be removed from Kodungaiyur and relocated elsewhere.” Interfering in his speech, Mayor M Subramanian said that the dump yard was in existence even before the advent of residential colonies in the area, hence Corporation ...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 30 Source: http://expressbuzz.com/states/tamilnadu/saidai-demand-to-levy-property-tax-on-schools/289345.html CHENNAI: The Opposition Floor Leader of the Chennai Corporation Council, 'Saidai' P Ravi (of the Congress party), on Wednesday reiterated his demand to levy property tax on private schools located within city limits. Participating in the Zero Hour debate during the monthly Council meeting held in the city at Ripon Building, Ravi said, "Though the civic body had several times in the past debated the issue at length and recommended necessary amendments to the Madras City Municipal Corporation (MCMC) Act (1919) to impose a property tax on private schools via a resolution, nothing has moved further ." He appealed to the Mayor M Subramanian to pass a new resolution in the next Council meeting asking the State government to reconsider the Council's request (sent two years ago) of bringing in a...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 29, 2011: CHENNAI: National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI) has planned to move contempt proceedings against the Indian National Shipowners Association (INSA) for disobeying a Bombay High Court order on allowances for each (on board) seaman while transporting dangerous cargoes. Speaking to Express from Mumbai, Abdulgani Y Serang, the general secretarycum- treasurer, NUSI, said: “ As per the terms of agreement signed before the Bombay High Court between INSA and NUSI three years  ago and subsequently ordered by the court as well, an allowance of Rs 10,000 per month or pro-rata was to be paid to Ratings and Petty Officers (commonly, seamen) on board the ships for carrying dangerous /radioactive materials .” Notwithstanding the order of the Bombay High Court, made while disposing of a writ petition on an industry-wide agreement for seamen working on Indian fl...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 23, 2011: Source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/save-north-chennai-from-traffic-congestion/286976.html CHENNAI: The stakeholders meeting organised by the Thiruvottiyur MLA K Kuppan to solve the perennial traffic problem in North Chennai roads due to container-trailer movements witnessed local residents pouring out their anger against government’s apathy in solving the long pending issue. “ Please save North Chennai and its people from traffic congestion, pollution and, more importantly, from loss of lives due to unrestricted movement of heavy vehicles” was the ‘fervent and clear’ appeal sent out to the attending officials by the local people. It may be noted that the local people, several times in the past, had agitated against the Chennai Port Trust, for which the roads are lifeline for the movement of all cargoes into and out of the harbour. However, nothing substantial happened on ground despite repeated ...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 22, 2011: Source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/preparation-of-draft-electoral-rolls-begins/286658.html CHENNAI: Giving enough indication that the expansion of Chennai Corporation by merging 42 adjacent local bodies is imminent, the historic civic body has hosted a meeting for top officials from all the to-be-annexed local bodies for drafting ward-wise electoral rolls. Speaking to City Express, D Karthikeyan, Commissioner of the City Corporation, said, “ A high-level meeting for block development officers, executive officers and municipal officials from the 42 local bodies with the Chennai Corporation was held on Monday to draft a ward-based electoral rolls.”   This was the first meeting with the officials from those to-be-annexed local bodies and more meetings would be conducted in coming weeks, Karthikeyan said. According to official sources, the meeting held at the Corporation premises was to final...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai, on June 21, 2011: source: http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/not-a-drop-from-this-tank-for-over-3-decades/286291.html CHENNAI: For the residents of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) tenements at Satyamurthi Nagar in Vyasarpadi, the tall overhead water tank abutting their colony is perhaps the tallest structure symbolising official neglect and apathy. The tank has never supplied even a litre of drinking water to the hundreds of nearby houses since its inauguration in the mid-1970s. Of late, the tank has become a potential threat to the nearby dwellers and children who play in the adjacent ground. Years of disuse have made the structure weak and shaky and the residents are afraid to approach it. The plaque put up during its inauguration is missing and hence, the local residents do not know much about the history of the water tank. “In the mid-70s, when the TNSCB developed new dwelling units to rehabilitate pe...

By G Saravanan Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai, on June 16, 2011: Source: http://expressbuzz.com/biography/save-the-rights-of-fishermen-appeals-local-body/284617.html CHENNAI: Heaping praise on the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK government for honouring fishermen community MLAs with top posts, the Tamil Nadu Puducherry Meenavar Koottamaippu on Wednesday appealed the state to secure fishing rights at village tanks, local ponds and lakes for the traditional fishermen community . Speaking to City Express here, G R Apparaj, state president of the association, said, “Securing fishing rights for traditional fishermen at these places would not only help them to earn and lead a decent life, it will also help to sustain inland fish resources for future generations.” “ The existing practice of auctioning of fishing rights at those spots by local bodies has allowed entry of people from non-fishing community, which has ultimately led to pure plundering of fish resource s ,” lamented Appar...

Source: http://www.vallinam.com.my/issue30/interview.html தீபச்செல்வன் (பிறப்பு: அக்டோபர் 24, 1983) ஈழத்துக் கவிஞரும் எழுத்தாளரும் சுயாதீன ஊடகவியலாளருமாவார். ஈழத்தின் வடபகுதியான கிளிநொச்சி, இரத்தினபுரத்தில் வசித்து வருகிறார். கவிதைகள், கதைகள், களச்செய்தியறிக்கை, பத்தி எழுத்து, ஓவியங்கள், வீடியோ விவரணம், புகைப்படங்கள், ஆவணப்படம், வானொலிப்பெட்டகம், ஊடகவியல், விமர்சனங்கள் என பல துறைகளில் இயங்கிவருகிறார். போர், அரசியல், மாணவத்துவம், தனிமனித உணர்வுகள் என்று இவர் எழுதிவருகிறார். யாழ் பல்கலைக்கழக மாணவர் ஒன்றியத்தில் செயலாளராக 2008/2009 இல் பதவி வகித்த இவர் யாழ் பல்கலைக்கழக தமிழ் துறையில் சிறப்பு பட்டம் பெற்று தற்பொழுது யாழ் பல்கலைக்கழக ஊடக பிரிவில் வருகை விரிவுரையாளராக பணிபுரிகிறார். அத்தோடு சுயாதீன ஊடகவியலாளராகவும் இயங்குகிறார். கிளிநொச்சி நகர வாழ்க்கையை பற்றி ‘கிளிநொச்சியின் கதை' என்ற இரு கட்டுரைகளை எழுதியுள்ளார். கவிதைகள் தவிர, விமர்சனம், ஓவியம், புகைப்படம் போன்ற பங்களிப்புகளையும் செய்து வருகிறார்.  'தீபம்' என்கிற பெயரில் வலைப்பதிவு ஒன்றும் எழுதிவருகிறார். 2005ஆம் ஆண்டு சுடரொ...